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Governance survey: Bengaluru ranks 16 among 21 cities

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The Hindu       01.03.2017   

Governance survey: Bengaluru ranks 16 among 21 cities

Slips four positions compared to the previous year

Patna, Kanpur, Lucknow and Ranchi are ahead of the ‘IT capital’ of the country, in a survey, as far as quality of governance is concerned. Bengaluru is ranked a lowly 16th among 21 cities.

In fact, Bengaluru slipped four positions compared to the previous year in the Annual Survey of India’s City-Systems (ASICS), conducted by Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy.

This was attributed to improvements in scores of smaller cities, such as Bhubaneswar (which jumped eight ranks to 10th place), Ahmedabad, Raipur and Ranchi. Thiruvananthapuram retained its number one position in 2016.

The not-for-profit organisation, which revealed the findings of the fourth edition of the survey on Tuesday, said Bengaluru is not adequately equipped to manage urbanisation as there are several ‘systemic inadequacies’ that could affect public service delivery.

Notably, all the Indian cities surveyed fared poorly on the 82 parameters, scoring between 2.1 and 4.4 on a scale of 10, against the global benchmarks set by London (9.3) and New York 9.8.